Adressing the roots of the housing problem

[Kewitt]

The only bit I would like to see them add....
Is for someone that owns more than one house currently. The 1st house they enter becomes there. The rest refunded.

[Syrehn]

Players will be permitted to own only one private and one free company estate per World per service account.

All I have to say is... it's about time!

Honestly, I can't foresee SE forcing players who do own multiple properties to give them up (but I could be wrong). My speculation is that they'll be grandfathered in, but we'll know more when they release their "special site".

The randomized timer for re-purchase is also a good idea as it will help with house flippers who are price gouging players. It does suck though that this means you can't relinquish a house to a friend.

I'd actually like to see them potentially add a feature that would allow you to transfer ownership of your estate to someone whom you share it with.

I don't think I agree with the FC only purchase restriction on ward release. That's really not fair for individuals, especially those on high pop servers, they're going to be ass out of luck. If they were going to do something like this I feel like they should have restricted it to FC's in primary wards and personal houses in the sub-wards. :/

[Khalithar]

The one per person/account is nice but they also need to do the right thing and retroactively apply that to people that own more than one house on a single account. With a full refund of course, but they should still be taken away. The fact that there aren’t enough houses is still a thing yes, but unless they take them away from people that were in before the limit (which should have been there since day one I might add as a pointed admonishment to the devs) it’s a hollow gesture.

[Coratanni]

The one per person/account is nice but they also need to do the right thing and retroactively apply that to people that own more than one house on a single account. With a full refund of course, but they should still be taken away. The fact that there aren’t enough houses is still a thing yes, but unless they take them away from people that were in before the limit (which should have been there since day one I might add as a pointed admonishment to the devs) it’s a hollow gesture.

Absolutely not. If someone has several houses they bought when a server was small, have built them up with things like shirogane walls, expensive chandeliers and mogstation interior walls, how is SE going to pick which house stays, and reimburses them for the ingame and mogstation purchases? Not going to happen.

[Khalithar]

Absolutely not. If someone has several houses they bought when a server was small, have built them up with things like shirogane walls, expensive chandeliers and mogstation interior walls, how is SE going to pick which house stays, and reimburses them for the ingame and mogstation purchases? Not going to happen.

Let them select the house they want to keep and return all items to the npc that lets you get furniture back when your house is reclaimed for the house they (SHOULD) lose.

[Darrcyphfeid]

Let them select the house they want to keep and return all items to the npc that lets you get furniture back when your house is reclaimed for the house they (SHOULD) lose.

There wouldn't be enough inventory available for those people. It's not going to happen - see here.


You guys are prematurely celebrating and getting excited about the wrong things. Again: If you do not have a house before 4.2, you are not getting anything more than table scraps. All FCs and anyone with a personal house (including alts) can relocate 1 hour after servers go live on Feb 6th. People that do not have a house already will have to wait until some undisclosed time beyond that, which may entail camping the placard for an entire day like we did Christmas day 2015. And still not getting anything.

[Khalithar]

There wouldn't be enough inventory available for those people. It's not going to happen - see here..

Clearly you’re missing my point. My point isn’t that it is happening, it’s that it should happen. My fc already has a house, this doesn’t effect me at all and I have no horse in this race. But I am sympathetic to the people that don’t and believe the one house rule should be retroactively applied as well. As far as them not having the space or being unable to hold all their reclaimed items, too bad?

[Coratanni]

Let them select the house they want to keep and return all items to the npc that lets you get furniture back when your house is reclaimed for the house they (SHOULD) lose.

I'm all for the changes SE has announced. Grandfather in the current owners, there won't be selling anymore, and people can't add additional housing from here on out. Through attrition, houses will return to the market place where others can buy them. There are also additional wards coming for every housing district, on every server.

Your way? Absolutely not. A terrible business decision, punishing one part of your client base, who didn't do anything wrong, all to appease mob rule.

[Alleo]

Absolutely not. If someone has several houses they bought when a server was small, have built them up with things like shirogane walls, expensive chandeliers and mogstation interior walls, how is SE going to pick which house stays, and reimburses them for the ingame and mogstation purchases? Not going to happen.

And if someone is not able to play the game for a certain amount of days they will also lose all of that. Thats also not fair but still part of the game. Also they introduced the timer after housing existed for quite some time, so people bought houses with the belief that they wont ever lose it, even if they dont play for a longer time. Yet the change came and it was used on older houses too. So why should the new rule be only for new ones?

[LaylaTsarra]

And if someone is not able to play the game for a certain amount of days they will also lose all of that. Thats also not fair but still part of the game. Also they introduced the timer after housing existed for quite some time, so people bought houses with the belief that they wont ever lose it, even if they dont play for a longer time. Yet the change came and it was used on older houses too. So why should the new rule be only for new ones?

Because they said so and because taking something away from someone is different than simply changing the rules for new purchases. You can continue with your vendetta against multiple home owners but it certainly appears from the directors comments that the new rules will apply to new purchases only.